ashm launchers on coast guard vessels?

VODKA KE0601 SG

what's those tubes for?

lionnoisy SG

Which country CG?

GIB SG

That is a US Coast Guard Hamilton-class High Endurance Cutter.

According to Wikipedia, those tubes are Harpoon launchers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Mellon_(WHEC-717)

Launching Harpoon:

gaoxingdcf07 SG

very nice looking ship...

Shotgun SG

Oh yeah.... the US Coast Guard is like the US's Brown water navy. =D

VODKA KE0601 SG

That is a US Coast Guard Hamilton-class High Endurance Cutter. According to Wikipedia, those tubes are Harpoon launchers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Mellon_(WHEC-717)

Thanks for the info, that's very interesting to know.

Do they use those harpoons on colombians drug runners or vessels with Illegal aliens?

GIB SG

Thanks for the info, that's very interesting to know.

Do they use those harpoons on colombians drug runners or vessels with Illegal aliens?

You can read the history of the ship below:

http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history.asp

http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history2.asp

http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history3.asp

http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history4.asp

http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history5.asp

http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history6.asp

http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history7.asp

Arapahoe SG

Thanks for the info, that's very interesting to know.

Do they use those harpoons on colombians drug runners or vessels with Illegal aliens?

if that happen u will read it in the news paper.

VODKA KE0601 SG

if that happen u will read it in the news paper.

i was just joking.

a US$527,416 (fas) - US$720,000 (wiki) harpoon to take out a vessel laden with a few hundred million dollars worth of drugs to protect the good citizens of the u.s of a, ain't that bad either.